We're really having a problem with the referees this year, and I know its cliche for a sports fan to say but something weird and suspicious is going on here. I mean we all know the disaster with Boston was all the refs fault ultimately, and it makes me furious to think that even after Kevin Love got hurt they continued to let Boston hurt us. This has revealed either a blatant incompetence or corrupt officials. I mean they truly have no fucking accountability whatsoever. This is a crisis.
And even after the Boston series they are still going after us. They pretty much blatantly tried to hand the Bulls game 4 which would have lost us the entire series. This has gone beyond extending playoff series for money and its in the realm of referee tampering. They are controlling the outcome of the playoffs and absolutely ruining the integrity of the sport and the league.
I'm really wondering what's going on with the refs and how they call LeBron too. There seems to be no respect whatsoever and its bizarre that the biggest star in the league seems to be the only one who doesn't get superstar calls. Hell, forget the superstar calls, he gets worst treatment than the average players in the league. Everyone has free license to hammer the guy twice as hard as anyone else. He gets abused more than anyone in the history of the game. And to some extent its always been that way, but at least earlier in his career the referees would call a fucking foul when he gets slammed. At least we'd get something out of it.
Now all we get is an exhausted leader and a team filled with injuries, crooked referees, double standards, disgusting sports fans who despise us and cheer injuries, and a media circus that shits on us on a daily basis.
So far our team has tried to "man up" and be quiet and stoic about this, and we've basically just been beaten, abused and cheated to the point where we can hardly compete at 1/10th our true level.
And as fans we're paying for the privelege to put up with this shit? I tell you guys one thing, I'm done with the NBA once LeBron retires. Hopefully we will win a championship before then. But I'm not going to continue wasting time watching a corrupt sport that disrespects one of its largest and most loyal fanbases for absolutely no fucking legitimate reason. Things have pretty much always been a little twisted with the NBA but its gotten to the point where this is unsustainable. This organization doesn't deserve to succeed anymore because their product is low quality. Billions of dollars and they can't even bring in some referees with integrity and enforce rules and hold them accountible.
What needs to happen is a fan strike and law suits, but I doubt this is gonna be changed anytime soon. Once a system is in place humanity is happy to just let it all go to shit.
